Yesterday Jason Klumb was appointed Regional Administrator to the General Service Administration's Heartland Region. The appointment goes into effect today, and Klumb will be put in charge of a $1.75 million dollar budget and 1,000 employees. It's a step up in the world for Klumb, whose main occupation has been traveling across Missouri trying to find people who will elect him to office. No matter where he went, he just couldn't win any primaries.
In his failed political quests, he let down his small minority of supporters, who believed that his fundraising prowess and newspaper endorsements meant he was destined for bigger and better things. Instead he served as a lesson that money can't buy elections - and that even with every advantage a candidate could have, he just wasn't going to be elected to office.
Jason Klumb gets confused, waves baby, not flag.
One account somewhat humorously summarizes the situation: "Klumb reflects everything that is wrong with the majority of Democratic, and Republican, Party candidates - condescending, lacking in ordinary real-life working experience, heavily in debt to special interests, implying a right to hold office because of who one has known or knows, and assuming language will hide a lack of ideas when it comes to addressing issues before the public."
Eventually, however, he figured it out. If you can't get elected, get appointed. The Obama Administration dared to do what voters have for years refused: put Klumb in a position of public responsibility.
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